[SAC] New Wordpress Install this month [Need Volunteers]

[Jeffrey Johnson]

How about beta.osgeo.org ?

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> Jody,
>
> Jeff passed me a copy of the theme, which we will move to an osgeo repo.
>
> Doing further research, here is the official guide to migrating a
> Wordpress site including changing the url.
> https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
> We'll need to decide today what url we want the development site to be on.
> After that the vendor can follow the steps to create an export of the
> website and database, and provide us a means to copy those outputs.
>
> From there SAC will use those files to put up an instance. Though we
> have not determined where/how/who yet.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>> On August 28, 2017 at 5:08 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Afternoon Alex:
>>
>> We are going into our meeting with the vendor on wednesday, it would be
>> good to have an action plan from  SAC for website deployment to share with
>> them.
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 15 August 2017 at 19:11, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>>
>> > The new website overhaul needs a Wordpress instance by the end of August.
>> >
>> > The related tasks are here:
>> > https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=!closed&
>> > milestone=Website+rebranding+2017
>> >
>> > 1. We need a volunteer familiar with Wordpress to handle the install and
>> > migration OR we need to identify a contractor (There is $3000 USD
>> > allocated from the Board for this)
>> >
>> > 2. We need to decide on the best method of deployment: since a
>> > Production and Staging site have been requested, I think we need to do a
>> > multi-site install.
>> >
>> > 3. Simply installing is not the hard part, it's planning for the db, db
>> > backup, Wordpress upgrade, and LDAP integration that need some thought.
>> >
>> > OSGeo7 is still just an idea so that's not an option. So it's seems like
>> > OSGeo6 is the logical place for now.
>> >
>> > Something containerized seems like a good idea but I don't know how to
>> > handle the frequent Wordpress upgrades if we do that. A Wordpress docker
>> > is available, but if I understand correctly docker is immutable, so to
>> > upgrade you replace your docker instance with a copy of the new one.
>> > This might work if the docker image includes the plugins we need, media
>> > is in a docker volume, and the db is external on the main host (pretty
>> > sure a Mysql db is there already).
>> >
>> > Fallback options include 3rd party hosting like AWS Lightsail,
>> > Wordpress.com or Pantheon. I estimate these options would cost $60-$300/yr
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Alex
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